(b Seville, c. 1595; d Seville, 1621). Spanish painter. He was the son of a painter, Diego Esquivel ( fl 1593–1618), and probably trained in his father’s workshop. He married in Seville in 1616 and died young. Only one signed painting of his has survived, the large SS Justa and Rufina in Seville Cathedral (c. 1620). It is an example of provincial Baroque naturalism: the two saints are portrayed as solemn, monumental figures with sweet faces; stylistically they are derived from the work of Juan de Roelas. Between the two saints is the Giralda, the tower of Seville, painted in great detail so that the paintings that once adorned its walls (now obliterated) are visible. No other work by Esquivel has survived, although it is recorded that in 1620 he painted an altarpiece for the lower choir of the church of S Pablo (now La Magdalena), Seville, and in the same year he contracted to paint three views of Seville (all untraced).